Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 2 | Jim concluded gloomily that in his view we should go on sliding downhill for the next few years . |
| 3 | PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway . |
| 4 | The estate and the businesses in Bradford have been allowed to run down during the last few years , while my father was not well . |
| 5 | only for the first few days |
| 6 | Obviously for the first few days after I could n't sleep . |
| 7 | Some of our final year students who were soon to be ordained , feeling the need for some kind of support system , especially during the first few years of ministry , decided to create their own cells . |
| 8 | It is most frequently found in sexually active women from their late teens to early thirties and is particularly common in pregnancy , especially during the first few months . |
| 9 | For many years the only Medau teacher in those parts , she has been particularly concerned , especially during the last few years , with classes for the elderly and handicapped , and has been a pioneer in getting Medau accepted as a suitable retraining system for stroke victims . |
| 10 | Russia 's debt problems were highlighted in a World Bank study released in late September which indicated that the country would need some US$20,000 million of external financial resources annually for the next few years to sustain economic reforms . |
| 11 | LLANDUDNO General Hospital will be virtually closed down for the next few days while the scale of the damage is assessed . |
| 12 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |
| 13 | I think we all feel we would like more central capital funding , but without it , it 's quite proper that we make er the best of use of the , of the assets we 've got , and we were n't using all our estate as effectively as we might , so for the last few years , we 've had a very vigorous programme of identifying land and buildings that are no longer required , and putting them on the market and thereby enabling us to build new facilities . |
| 14 | So for the next few days this column will present several different ways of assessing corporate performance for 1989 . |
| 15 | So for the next few months she used a variant of the tactics she had tried to perfect with her parents : do what you 're told and keep your head down . |
| 16 | It may also be useful to have a risk management consultant in for the first few meetings , if only to kick-start the process and provide a few , objective ‘ what if ? ’ questions . |
| 17 | I 've been thinking it 's needed some more in for the last few meals . |
| 18 | The therapist agreed to see David daily for the next few days in order to provide him with support . |
| 19 | She had to think only of the next few hours . |
| 20 | But falling pupil numbers at Soudley Primary School could lead to it being shut down within the next few years . |
| 21 | Only within the last few years have doctors begun to realize that this microbe can cause disease . |
| 22 | It may have even done so within the last few centuries , though no one can know for sure . |
| 23 | According to s.6 , as amended by the FSA 1986 , the practice of price stabilisation ( ie. trading activities geared towards stabilising share prices , especially in the first few months of an issue ) , if done in conformity with the rules made under s.48 of the FSA 1986 , can take place despite the fact that such activities would ordinarily be in breach of the insider dealing prohibitions . |
| 24 | They plan to move in within the next few weeks . |
| 25 | Then Beryl went on to outline a couple of job offers that had come in within the last few days . |
| 26 | When the engagements are abroad , I work feverishly in the last few days and nights to create a reasonably finished piece of work — just in case we crash . |
| 27 | So , although the Bolsheviks did not start the inflationary process , they were unable to stop it either , despite their wish to do so in the first few months of Soviet rule . |
| 28 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
| 29 | Only in the last few pages is cosmology mentioned explicitly , although Hubble was deeply interested in it . |
| 30 | Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details . |